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Failure to Finish Play in the Environment the behavior of this bit of air better than a The solution to the flood of numbers and moved on to a new project, studying how supercomputer model. The insight was, in metrics, I think, is to take beauty seriously— deforestation has changed the monsoon a word, beautiful. not to treat it as ornamentation to be add- rains in India. It’s another ugly problem, a The cliché that beauty is in the eye of the ed on top of some base level of measurable small example of how we are unintention- beholder is, like most clichés, completely achievement. I worry that if I don’t focus on ally reshaping Earth for the worse. But there true. Beauty is not a property that something deep understanding, I’ll end up attempting is also the opportunity for understanding has, but is more a way of seeing, an orienta- to produce flashy papers and stylish achieve- a complex system, appreciating its beauty, tion. During that night when I first realized ments as quality falls away. It’s the scholarly and maybe even restoration. math could be beautiful, convergence didn’t equivalent of teaching to the test, of numbers change: I did. This, I think, is the saving grace polluting the way we learn. Berta Greenwald Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow for the applied sciences. Environmental deg- After months of guiding the Beijing smog Drew Pendergrass ’20, a physics and mathemat- radation is very ugly, but it can be studied in research through revisions and peer review, ics concentrator living in Pforzheimer House, has a way that yields beautiful insights into how we finally published earlier this year. I’ve stopped to smell the roses. systems work and fail, and those discoveries have the side effect of helping people. As I worked on the smog project, I be- gan to realize that, at least for me, beauty SPORTS is not an option, but a necessity. Before I could study the effects of climate change, or come up with a clever new policy, I had to understand the interlocking systems at Failure to Finish play in the environment. And before I could understand the complex dynamics of the Dreadful defeats—and a heartbreaking Game—produced world, I had to stare long enough to see the entire picture. Because beauty is intimately the Crimson’s first losing season of the century. related to a sense of wholeness, to see some- thing all at once is to see it as beautiful. Strangely, in my quest to be useful, to t approximately 4:05 p.m. on to 5-2 overall and 3-1 in the Ivy League, po- optimize, I’ve had to slow down and look November 2, the 2019 Harvard sitioning the team for an Ivy title run. again for beauty. I’ve found that the danger of football season began unravel- But even though two Harvard defend- busyness, besides burning out, is that beauty ing. Until that moment, the cam- ers got their hands on the Hail Mary throw is awfully hard to schedule. By the end of Apaign was proceeding in the style to which Four score: With Yale’s Melvin Rouse II in each semester, the space I’ve tried to leave coach Tim Murphy’s teams had been accus- vain pursuit, Harvard’s Aidan Borguet for beauty—the creative-writing classes, the tomed for two decades. With six seconds heads for the goal line. Against the Elis, the deliberate thinking through research prob- remaining in the game at Harvard Stadium, Crimson freshman back rushed for a series lems, the math puzzles with friends—gets the Crimson led Dartmouth 6-3. If Harvard single-game record 269 yards and amassed four touchdowns on only 11 carries, a compressed as piled-up problem sets and could knock down a long Big Green pass performance that helped earn him the Ivy meetings take more and more of my energy. into the end zone, its record would move League Rookie of the Year award. Beautiful things take their own time. Math- ematics is stunning only if it is allowed space, if problems can go days on end without a so- lution. Otherwise it is a chore. I cannot even read if my mind is too heavy with things to do; focus scatters like startled birds. I have trouble believing in something called human nature. But if there is a universal, I think it is the desire to be like other people, to take in what we admire about our friends and family and make it a part of ourselves. I worry about this, because numbers are much easier to copy than subtle things like a sense of curiosity or compassion. And we are absolute- ly flooded in numbers. Most great scientists have lots of papers and citations, CVs that stretch for pages. I know I fixate on the long lists of metrics that appear next to the names of people I admire on Google Scholar, and I get the urge to speed up my work to match. Photographs by Tim O’Meara/The Harvard Crimson Harvard Magazine 31 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL from quarterback Derek Kyler, the Big Green’s he elaborated: “We played really hard every would excel, with Sot, last season’s All-Ivy prayers were answered. The ball was grabbed single game. At times we played really well. punter, averaging an eye-popping 56.3 yards by receiver Masaki Aerts, giving Dartmouth Statistically we were not as good an offensive on three punts and McKeogh an excellent a miracle 9-6 victory. It was the most ghastly team as we were a year ago. We were not as 41.2 on four. Senior defensive lineman Brogan defeat in the 146-year history of Harvard foot- good a team overall. We didn’t have as many McPartland had two sacks. Junior linebacker ball—for three weeks, anyway, until it was senior starters. The sum total of that was we Jack McGowan had the Crimson’s first in- equaled, arguably, by a 50-43, double-overtime had to just give everything we possibly had, terception of the season. Harvard also forced loss in The Game at Yale that nevertheless fea- just to be in the game in the fourth quarter. three fumbles. Junior quarterback Jake Smith tured (besides a halftime interruption) a re- And I think that’s a testament to our kids. was solid, going 18-for-28 passing for 217 cord-setting performance by an unheralded They never gave up. But there was just no yards with touchdowns to four receivers. freshman Harvard running back. In between, margin for error in almost every game.” Among the quartet were seniors Jack Cook the Crimson would lose in overtime to Co- and Cody Chrest, who were emerging as a lumbia and by four points to Penn. Each Sat- The early season gave little hint that such reliable long-distance tandem. Chrest, who urday drove another stake through the heart. epic calamity was on the horizon. A squad had played intermittently before this sea- The final record was 4-6—Harvard’s first los- featuring a number of unproven players son, would finish as the Crimson’s leading ing season since 1998. seemed to be gradually rounding into form. receiver, with 45 catches. “Cody came out of This five-game losing streak, which began After a rocky 31-23 opening loss at San Diego, nowhere,” said Murphy. “He had been fight- with a 30-24 loss at Princeton, was a night- the Crimson impressively handled Brown ing injuries his entire career. He finally got mare of spotty play, gambles that backfired, 42-7 in the home opener (see “Reload and healthy and showed what he can do.” Fire,” November- Cook and Chrest also figured in the December 2019, scoring the following week, a 31-21 victory page 32). The fol- at Holy Cross. Cook caught an 18-yarder lowing week the from Smith in the back of the end zone, and team from Howard Chrest and Smith hooked up for a 68-yard University visited pass-and-run touchdown. There were oth- the Stadium in the er standouts, including McPartland, who first game between had three quarterback sacks. He would the schools. The end the season as the Ivy sack leader, with Bisons, from the 9.5. “We knew he had that potential,” said Mid-East Athletic Murphy. “Brogan gave us great energy and Conference, were great leadership.” overmatched: Har- But what had Holy Cross’s homecom- vard won a crush- ing crowd really buzzing was the 76-yard ing 62-17 victory. punt Sot lofted in the third quarter, which The Crimson suc- flipped the field from the Harvard 14 to cessfully blocked the Holy Cross 10. On the day, Sot and three Bison punts McKeogh dropped six punts inside the during the game, Crusader 20. “I feel like we’re in an alter- with swift fresh- nate universe, the way our guys are punt- man defensive back ing the ball,” said Murphy. At season’s end, Khalil Dawsey the Crimson led the league in both aver- Jarring: As Harvard sophomore defensive blocking a pair. (All season long Harvard age punting distance (40.2 yards) and net lineman Truman Jones (90) sacks and would be among the nation’s leaders in punting (38.8 yards per kick). Sot’s 42.3 av- strips the ball from Dartmouth quarter- back Derek Kyler, Crimson senior blocked kicks, finishing with nine.) Anoth- erage distance was easily the league’s best.
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